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Word: flynn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fighting O'Flynn (Fairbanks; Universal-International) allows Douglas Fairbanks Jr. to make good use of a reliable family formula: never enter a room through a door if you can vault through the window, never pick a fight with one man if you can take on a squad. In a cheerfully outrageous tale of a Napoleonic plot to invade Ireland, Fairbanks makes his entrance with tongue in cheek. In the end, he almost swallows it to keep from laughing at his own exaggerated heroics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 21, 1949 | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...Fighting O'Flynn is a barefaced whopper, unsullied by any hint of realism, but it is told with whopping good spirits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 21, 1949 | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...following men were elected to HDC membership: John A. Seiler '51, and John C. Aldrich, Robert A. Berger, Jonathon Bishop, Gaynor F. Bradish, David M. Brown, Douglas G. Dahlin, Kenneth L. Everett, Harry F. Flynn, David D. Foss, John S. Gerig, Chester E. Gordon, and Richard E. Norris, all of the Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Names Two Officers, 13 Men | 1/11/1949 | See Source »

When, in a New York by-election, the Democrats were trounced by the Progressive Party's Leo Isacson in Boss Ed Flynn's own Bronx, panic swept the Democratic ranks. Politicos began to desert the Truman ship. Anybody but Truman was the cry. Through it all, the man from Missouri kept his own counsel, and laid his plans. When he was asked to withdraw, he retorted grimly: "I was not brought up to run from a fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Fighter in a Fighting Year | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...Adventures of Don Juan (Warner) is the latest episode in the Perils of Errol (Flynn). In this chapter, Errol is knee-deep in the intrigues of the Spanish court of Philip III and neck-deep in its lavish costumes. He is also once again a rascal with a 14-karat heart and a 1-karat mind. His intentions are high, true and gallant. His planning could at best be called faulty; it usually ends with Errol on the cold side of the dungeon walls and the villains holding the keys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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